Space 1999 Eagle Transporter

Dinky Eagle Transporter

Who can remember the Space 1999 Eagle Transporter? If there is one toy that will surpass all others for indestructibility, one toy that will outlast all others, one that will chip all the paint from you other corgi cars, one that will prove useless for most car racing tracks and games it was the Space 1999 ...

Escape from Colditz

Escape from Colditz Arcade Game

Escape from Colditz for the Amiga by Digital Magic Software Ltd. It is a fantastic adventure game that will keep you gripped for years and is available on several emulators. Released in 1991 the Amiga games is based on the Gibson Games board-game. You are in control of a team of 4 prisoners of war (POWs) – ...

London Cabbie Board Game

London Cabbie Board Game

London Cabbie Board Game Here is a great game to remember from Intellect Games, London Cabbie This taxi driving game is a lovely little game that our UK visitors may remember. This game for 2 to 6 players is now very hard to find in complete and good condition as it was only in production for a few ...

Ufo Arrow Games Jigsaw

UFO Jigsaw Puzzle

Today's skoolday memory is the nostalgic UFO jigsaw by arrow games. It seems in the absence of video games that jigsaws had a good run in the sixties and seventies as a way of passing the time. For years jigsaws seemed to display a picture of the same chocolate box picturesque street or another harbour ...

Blast Off Board Game

Blast Off Space Race Board Game

If ever i had a game that promised so much and delivered absolute zero, Blast Off was that Board Game. Why such high expectations?. Well after purchasing Monopoly, Risk, Formula One, Totopoly and Cluedo it seemed that every game by Waddington's would be awesome (Apart from Scrabble made by Spears games) For some reason my 1960's ...

Spirograph Toy

Kenners Spirograph Set

Spirograph Set Spirograph is a geometrical drawing tool from the sixties It's simplicity at its best with a vast difference between what you intend to produce and the final result. The examples on the box cover show the Spirograph producing beautiful results in the same standard as found by any forger of a twenty pound note. Spirograph' intricate stencil ...

Tri-Tactics Board Game

Tri-Tactics

Tri-Tactics was a popular board game in the seventies by H.P. Gibson It seems all the kids in the School Cadets had a set of Tri-Tactics. I'm not sure if these sets were released with all Cadette memberships but clearly it was a big game in there world. surprisingly one rainy day when football was off ...

The Battle of Little Big Horn

Battle of Little Big Horn

Anyone remember the Battle of Little Big Horn game by Waddingtons? In the 1970s i would often frequent several second hand gadget shops, this was a long time before car boot sales existed, though it was in the days of a good old fashion jumble sale. One of the local shops had an uncanny knack of ...

Enchanted Forest

Enchanted Forest Game

Enchanted Forest by Ravensburger If ever there was a game that kept me coming back again and again to play with my siblings it was this beautiful Enchanted Forest game from Ravensburger back in the early eighties. Enchanted Forest is a memory game in a very similar vein to card meory games except you had to reveal ...